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HCW4-F3/F

HCW4-F3/F

High-speed wrapping machine for pre-formed products
in bottom fold. The direct connection of a secondary packaging machine enables the grouping of the individual products and simultaneous overwrapping in stick packs.

Product Characteristics

Folding type

Primary packaging

  • Bottom Fold

Secondary packaging

  • Stick packs on edge
  • Stick packs on edge (oval)

Products

  • Products suitable for plate feeding
  • Hard Candy (with or without center-filling)
  • Eclair
  • Toffees

Product dimensions

Single Products

  • Length: 18 – 40 mm
  • Width: 12 – 25 mm
  • Height: 8 – 16 mm

Stick Pack

  • Length: 44 – 130 mm
  • Width: 18 – 40 mm
  • Height: 12 – 25 mm

Products per Stick Pack:

  • 3 – 16 pieces

Output

  • Up to 1500 single products / min
  • Up to 300 stick packs / min (F3)
  • Up to 130 stick packs / min (F4)

Technical Data

Utilities

HCW4+F3

  • Connected load: 16 kVA
  • Compressed air consumption: 2 m³/h; 600 kPa
  • Cooling water consumption: 0,15 m³/h

HCW4+F4

  • Connected load: 20 kVA
  • Compressed air consumption: 2 m³/h; 600 kPa

Measurements

Machine

  • Length: 5250 mm
  • Width: 3400 mm
  • Height: 2060 mm

Weight

  • Machine: 7000 kg
  • Switch cabinet: 660 kg

Wrapping material

HCW4

  • Wax paper
  • Cellophane
  • Polypropylene
  • Aluminium/paper – coated

F3

  • Wax paper
  • Cellophane
  • Polypropylene
  • Aluminium/paper – coated

F4

  • Aluminium/paper – coated (sealable)
  • Plastics compound foil – sealable

Material dimensions

HCW4

  • Reel diameter: up to 400 mm
  • Reel width: up to 100 mm
  • Core diameter: 70 – 76,2 mm

F3

  • Reel diameter: up to 350 mm
  • Reel width: up to 160 mm
  • Core diameter: 70 – 76,2 mm

F4

  • Reel diameter: up to 380 mm
  • Reel width: up to 180 mm
  • Core diameter: 70 – 76,2 mm
  • Tear tape F3 und F4
  • Reel diameter: up to 120 mm
  • Reel width: up to 100 mm
  • Core diameter: 29 mm

Equipment & Options

Special features

HCW4

  • A particularly gentle handling of the products is guaranteed by the continuous motion principle
  • Highly efficient feeding system with integrated sorting station to eliminate sugar dust, chips and broken pieces
  • Servo control with PLC functions
  • Pickup of the products from the feeding plate and simultaneous wrapping material supply within the removal wheel reduces product transfers
  • Air support to allow the use of PP foils
  • Saving of wrapping material by »no product – no paper« -device
  • Automatic splicer to change wrapping material reels without stopping the machine
  • Ejection of spliced, mal-registered and unwrapped products
  • Servo-driven wrapping material feed rollers, wrapping material knife and material reels
  • Pneumatic core locking and reel tensioning devices
  • Heating wheel to seal the wrapping
  • Automatic temperature control of the sealing units
  • Opening of the heat sealing units at machine stop
  • Servo motor driven grouping section to prevent incomplete product groups
  • Servo motor driven transfer of product groups to a continuous or discontinuous motion secondary wrapping machine
  • Pressureless water treatment

F3 and F4

  • Automatic splicer to change wrapping material reels without stopping the machine
  • Saving of wrapping material by »no product – no paper« -device
  • Servo-driven wrapping material feed rollers, wrapping material knife and material reels
  • Pneumatic core locking and reel tensioning devices
  • Photo-electric print registration
  • Ejection device for incomplete, »spliced« respectively mal-registered stick packs
  • Excellent accessibility for operation, maintenance and cleaning purposes
  • Easy operation due to the touch screen
  • Depending on local conditions, one operator is required
  • System of protection: IP 54

Combinations

  • Beside manual feeding, the machine can be directly synchronized to the production line by means of a THEEGARTEN-PACTEC feeding system.

Optional extras

  • Photo-electric print registration for individual products
  • Web tracking control
  • Special paper feed unit for HCW4 machine in case two wrapping materials (outer wrapper and under strip) are used – with or without automatic splicer for the outer wrapper
  • Code dating device for stick packs
  • Tear tape device

Product Brochure

HCW4_F3-F4_ENG_19_1_web.pdf

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